What Was your first deer shot with?

rem 700 .243 I probably could have pissed on the bugger he was so close when I came around the corner.
 
I'm 30 now.. my first was at 11, spike/2 point at 175 yards with a 7mm rem mag after missing it with a 1894 30-30. 3 feet low with the 30-30. Double lung with the 7mm, don't remember recoil.

When I think back though, I remember a whitetail doe a year or two later, at ~90 yards running with a husky .270 win. Perfect shot, through everything and got stuck in the hide of the outside leg, quartering away.
It was limping, trying to get up the hill and I put one more into the back of it's head, freehand at ~110 yards and I don't know how. I couldn't hit a target like that. I have always been better at game than paper.
 
Further to my first post,

Below Posted 3/7/11

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In 1943, a .30-30, Win. 94 saddle ring carbine, metal but plate, stock stamped "City of Toronto" barrell shot out, bought for $20 by my father when 16. Shot two deer, 10 point buck and a spike buck, one shot each on the first hunt, Baptese Lake, Ont. from the old then operating rail line.:)

Oh, to have that rifle today!
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To add to the above, my father had a Savage 99 takedown .250-3000 and my uncle a Savage 99 .300. Neither got a shot that week or ever shot a deer.:( The other 7 hunters in the very posh lodge were all Americans and I can recall the surprise that we and the local guides expressed between ourselves that the .30-06s that they were carrying.:eek:

Of the 5 deer shot that week by 10 hunters, I shot two with the condemmed City of Toronto shot out .30-30 saddle ring pre-1910 Mod 94.

As for the 3 family rifles, my 94 saddle ring, I sold for $40 :(, I inherited my fathers lightweight Savage 99 take down .250, very foolishly traded it for an inferior rifle :(. The Savage 99 in .300 of my uncle, I was given the choice of it or a Stevens 20 Ga. double and made the wrong pick. :(

For you younger readers, learn from my life time of trading, selling mistakes. I made them all to my regret.

Did I ever mention that I had a Colt Lightning pump in .44, marked "Colt Repeating Arms - 308 High Holborn, London" that I traded for an old .38 caplock ML, worth probably no more than $30. :(:(:(:(:(. Also a WW1 long barrel 9mm. Navy Luger, bought fo $25, sold for $40.:(:(:(:(:(

Sorry about the rant but there is a lesson here for every one who reads this.
 
I am constantly horse trading, and at times have traded /sold stuff that I regret for a while, but I have learned to try and not fuss about it, because i got something "new"!:redface:
However, I have a few that I will never let go of, and hopefully one coming to me soon that will stay!:D
My .58 Fraser River Hawken has killed more game and won more matches for me that any other rifle I own, but it is not as dear to me as my first .22, which Ii still have, or my father's .303 British No.4 , that was his first custom job and has killed a ton of game!:)
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Winchester 94 in 30-30 with a newly side-mounted 4X scope, the most rediculous looking thing ever and I thought it was great, the first scope I ever looked through lol. It was a small doe standing broadside on the path to the pole line. Three of us hunted the same spot and everyone shot a deer that morning. Man there were a lot of deer back then.
 
.303 british, running shot at 100yards. All I saw after the shot was a kick as it disappeared over a rise in the field, it didn't run anywhere after the shot, it slid about 10feet. The next year that gun dropped three deer (one for my tag, two on my father inlaws)

After all that I still hate that gun
 
Savage model 99 250-3000. Open sights. 4 point muley at 50 yards through the spine between the shoulder blades as it turned to run up the hill.
 
Model 99e .300 savage 180gr federal factory stuff. 30 yards double lung, folded the buck like a cheap lawn chair. The 99 was wearing a 4 powered bushnell scopechief with the command post on it
 
Winchester 94 in good old 30/30 with open sights. First gun that I ever owned. Still have it and pull it out of the gun safe every once in a while and take it for a walk!
 
A hastily borrowed Ruger No. 1, 30-06 (didn't know that when it was graciously handed to me) 245 yard shot, three of them there, with the man whispering in my ear which one to take. Boom, one shot and she was down. My first ever shot at a living creature. I didn't even know at that time that it was a single-shot rifle and kept asking the owner how to reload it!! Man, I'll never forget that experience.
 
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